gift economy

When talking about currency, we tend to think of money and what that money can buy. But let’s look at currency in terms of giving and receiving. There is much that we both give and receive in life outside the realm of money, and becoming conscious of this can open up a new world of [...]

The Visionary Troubadour enjoys a life rich in gifts from others, and rich in the gratitude and love that is generated as one gifts to others. The path of the Visionary Troubadour is made possible by converting many of your monetized transactions into gifting transactions, while also possibly finding ways to generate streams of cash [...]

So, this web site is not yet ready to go, but it’s time to start blogging. I feel some hesitancy to begin revealing the intimacies of my journey, and often have doubts about how public I desire my life to be. Many times last year in Brasil, I contemplated just disappearing there… leading a very [...]

“Let us give you a plot of land down by the river. It’s yours.” said the visionary young man with the big grin was translating his father’s words, as swung his arm in the direction of the tropical mountains. In his other arm he held his two year old son, who was being raised not [...]